Don-Quixotic

Don-Quixotic (comparative more Don-Quixotic, superlative most Don-Quixotic)

1. Alternative form of Don Quixotic.
   • 1822, Robert Ker Porter, Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, volume II, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, , page 721:

     To interfere in behalf of a woman so situated, would cast a sort of contamination on her; and therefore have the effect of Don-Quixotic interruption of the boy’s castigation from his master,—only redouble the stripes.

   • 1883 February 21, Rex, “Our Washington Letter—A Visit to the White House—What is to be Seen in Some of the Rooms”, in Morning Journal and Courier‎, volume LI, New Haven, Conn.: Carrington & Co., published 27 February 1883:

     After waiting for fully three-quarters of an hour the Don-Quixotic looking individual who had received me announced himself as ready to show us the remaining parlors.

   • 1889 February 2, H. F. Wood, “The Englishman of the Rue Cain”, in Supplement to the York Herald, number 11,755, page 2:

     It was true that in the levities of her own infatuation, in the insolences of her sudden social triumph, she had showered upon the Don-Quixotic mentor of her girlhood, open, cruel, and contemptuous slights.

   • 1930 September 24, Elmo Scott Watson, “The “Don Quixote of the Seas””, in Thomas County Herald and Thomas County Clipper‎, volume XLIII, number 18, Thedford, Neb.:

     A Don Quixote he lived, and a Don Quixote he died, according to Wasserman, who writes: “When he felt his last hour was near, he sent for a notary and witnesses, intending to cancel the will of 1498 and draw up another. It begins with the Don-Quixotic dictum: ‘As I am making a free gift of India to the King and Queen . . .’ […]”

   • 1991 June 16, Joseph Corfield Jr., “Encore”, in Sunday Montgomery Advertiser, 164th year, number 167, Montgomery, Ala., page 3D:

     Of all of the inane, misdirected and Don-Quixotic editorials and cartoons you’ve ever run to knock down a strawman argument, your sophomoric pap about the introduction of Encore to cable viewers takes the cliche.

   • 2018, Matei Calinescu, “Epilogue: Zacharias Lichter and His Biographer”, in Adriana Calinescu, Breon Mitchell, transl., The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter, New York, N.Y.: New York Review Books, →ISBN, page 143:

     If I knew, at least, that you meant to write a fictional life of Zacharias Lichter, so be it! Or a comedic history, serene, Don-Quixotic, naive, larger than life.

   • 2019, Willi Goetschel, Heine and Critical Theory, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:

     But this Sancho Panza on the other hand represents the very mass of human nature that made the Don-Quixotic phenomenon of human existence possible in the first place: […]